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Urban Intimacies:

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Urban Intimacies:

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Linda, Dana

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Reading Public Women in the Postcolonial Caribbean

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Sharpe, Jenny

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UCLA

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2017

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UCLA

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2017

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This dissertation is the first book-length study of Caribbean island literatures from the English- and Spanish-speaking regions to explore the material and metaphorical geographies of prostitution anchored in the port cities of Jamaica, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Although studies of urban space are typically oriented towards metropolitan centers of Caribbean migration, this project foregrounds the port city as a geographical space that is bound up with the figure of the public woman in what I am calling a relationship of intimacy. Its alternative literary historiography extends post-independence Caribbean literature of citizenship and nationhood to contemporary writers who destabilize both the island paradise myth and national conceptions of unity. In particular, I argue that this alternative gendered spatial imaginary provides a dynamic model that complicates the imposed colonial boundaries of race, gender, class, and nation that have been reproduced by the postcolonial state. My dissertation builds on sociological studies of sex work in the Caribbean by making a case for the role that creative narrative interventions play in bringing greater legitimacy and visibility to women who are marginalized within nationalist discourses

Linda, Dana

Sharpe, Jenny

UCLA

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